Artists Visiting Austin Explore 21st Century Colonialism

AUSTIN, TX — A pair of artists visiting Austin from abroad will address colonialism in the 21st century on Thursday.

“Poetics of Body and Territory: Challenging Colonial Continuity in the 21st Century, A Mapuche-Caribbean Dialogue”will feature Mapuche poet Roxana Miranda Rupailaf and Puerto Rican performance artist Noemí Segarra Ramírez. The discussion is scheduled on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Patton Hall (RLP) 1.302B at the University of Texas at Austin campus.

The event will consist of a transhemispheric work demonstration and dialogue between the two women artists, that will allow for an engaging interdisciplinary conversation about their artistic responses to different enactments of colonial continuity in Wallmapu-Chile and the Caribbean today.

Through Roxana’s poetry and video-art, and Noemí’s dance and movement improvisation, both artists seek to disrupt gender and sexual heteronormativity and de-center ethnocentric ways of inhabiting while exploring human and non-human relations with the environment from a base of knowledge that embodies the land in diverse ways.

The public is invited to attend this free, thought-provoking presentation.